Nero AG
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| Industry | Software development |
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| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| Revenue | € 31.427 million (2011) |
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Number of employees
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410 (2011) |
| Website | Nero.com |
Nero AG (known as Ahead Software AG until 2005) is a German computer software company that is especially well known for its CD/DVD/BD burning suite, Nero Burning ROM, and is currently the global market leader for this recording software. The company's main product is Nero 2017, a piece of software that comprises burning, file conversion, media management and video editing functions and is updated on an annual basis.
Richard Lesser founded the company as Ahead Software GmbH in 1995. The company changed its name (and legal form) to Ahead Software AG in 2001 and again to Nero AG in 2005.
The Nero Group includes foreign subsidiaries in Glendale, California, United States (Nero Inc., founded in 2001), in Yokohama, Japan (Nero K.K., founded in 2004) and Hangzhou, China (Nero Ltd., founded in 2007). The USA and Japan operations are sales offices, while the Chinese subsidiary operates exclusively to provide internal development services for the company.
In May 2007, it was announced that the Luxemburg-based firm Agrippina International SàrL owned more than 25% of Nero AG shares
In 2009, the company established two additional subsidiaries in Germany: Nero Development and Services GmbH and Nero EMEA Sales GmbH.
In 2014, the company moved the operations and headquarters of Nero AG, as well as of the two group companies Nero Development and Services GmbH and Nero EMEA Sales GmbH, to Karlsruhe.
From its beginnings selling a single software application for burning, the company says it has become « leader in digital media technologies » that now sells a wide range of products. Nero sells its products directly as well as via hardware manufacturers that bundle them on PCs, hard disks, camcorders and other devices. Other companies also use Nero multimedia codecs, SDKs and programming interfaces.
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